Well I guess that would depend on what whose opinion is about what a yuppie is

Computers are machines that help use solve problems we wouldn't have if we didn't have computers!

Hmm an identity crisis, well let's get to work then eh?
For astart, no yuppie would start a conversation with "Yo to all", so you can lay your mind to rest in that area. However we are still left without a pidgeon hole title. So from the information you've given us you could be only one of two things: A gadget boy or a poser.
Now the question you have to ask yourself is did you buy said gadgets to satisfy that crazy hunger for potentially useless electronic gadgetry? OR did you buy them to impress your buddies and girls?

If you answered yes to the first question then you're a gadget boy like 99% of the TLR forums. So welcome to the club.
If you answered yes to the second question, then you're a poser and should book in for some psycotherapy at the soonest possible convenince in the vain hope that they'll find your real personality.

I'm really hoping you answered yes to the first question. However if you did answer yes to the second question, then sorry about that whole poser remark thing.

So what is a yuppie today? Once upon a time, it was a young urban professional who only wore or bought brand name goods. And if the articles were clothes, preferably, with both the brand name AND the label on the outside for all th world to see.... basically a "poser," I think.

What does yuppie mean now?

Fight Like Warlord

def an 80s phenomenon. You still get yuppie wannabees, usually upper-working class kids who's parents have come into some money and paid for a halfway decent education and the offspring has let ideas of "success" inspired by Hollywood and toss friends/relatives goto his head. My erstwhile "manager" is/was one such, until I successfully disavowed him of such ideas over the last year,and introduced him to correct "Tawakalnic" thinking. Now he shuts up and behaves himself and lets me make all his decisions for him - which is as it should be.

However somewhere there still seems to be a wellspring of wannabee yuppies, invariably sales people, still competing over who has the better company car/mobile phone/laptop/pda/mp3 player/usb drive, etc etc etc. Occassionally the newer and more foolish ones try their little tricks out on me, desp. trying to score a point by flashing off their latest gadget/toy/piece of cr*p <sigh> the sport now is NOT whether I can drive them out of the room in abject humiliation, but how quickly I can do it - it's now down to one-liners and 15 seconds.

"Yuppies" ha! what a larf.

Yuppies in the US are Y oung U rban P rofessionals. Downtown living, uppward climbing, business people. Mainly. Attachments not necessary.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

>>>>>Start Ego Spree<<<<<<

Okay, I own three pieces of flashy equipment= A brand new outdated computer, a sweet little mountain bike (26" tires on a frame for 24", and an awesome cheap drumset. It sucks to look at, old dew cans all over the desk, dust on the bike, and the set is just cheap; but if someone complains about my stuff, they can duel me in FL or fight me in C&C Generals, race me on my bike, or see who can drum a roll that sounds like it's forty people doing it perfectly.

>>>>>>End Ego Spree<<<<<<

Okay, the moral of the story is It's not what it is, it's how you use it

Edit: To continue what Finalday was saying: You know your dotcom business is failing when the CEO says that he might be out of his twenties when he has to retire.



Edited by - Eh_Steve on 3/21/2004 7:36:23 AM

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It's not what it is, it's how you use it

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That can be used in so many ways....

Life: No one gets out alive.



Edited by - RILMS on 3/22/2004 8:50:39 AM

a yuppie is a young urban proffesional

You live in Melbourne, have lots of expensive toys, attend Melbourne University, and you don't know if you're a "yuppie" or not? *Shakes head*

maybe he is a muppie?

Maybe he's just normal and the rest of us are just less-yuppish-than-normal.

Of course that came from the great Drew Carey Show:
"I don't know, she kinda runs witha a fast crowd."
"Did you ever think, Drew, that maybe she just runs with a normal crowd and you're just runnin' really slow?"

@Viator: I think the word you're looking for is "nerd." I think everyone here's been guilty of being a nerd at some point in their life. If they aren't, they know people who are. Like me.

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb!"

maybe im just a gadget boy/technofile. i dont buy cool stuff like MD's and PocetPC's for other people. My MD was a replacement for my Discman, and was spurred by my undying urge to be different. Most of my friends don't give a rats anymore, except for one whose rich parents seem to give him anthing, and he's seen that ive got a different was of listening to music, so his parents go out and buy him a new Sony MD. Eh, maybe im starting a trend.

@meezookeewee: im not a nerd. i prefer geek.

And esq: who said i went to melbourne uni? im not even eighteen yet. unless my intelligence shines through all my posts. (i wish.)

Viator

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i used to be a guy called jake_langley

Edited by - Viator on 3/23/2004 2:07:21 AM

You said that you went to Melbourne Uni in a previous threads (months ago)! *Puts on Ralph Wiggam voice* You're deceptive .

You have to be wealthy to be a "yuppie" anyway. Are you?